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Old 07 October 2009, 10:43 PM
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Are any other snopesters on Google Wave yet? I got my invite this morning, and have been playing around, but things are running quite slowly at the moment. I assume they may be stress testing the servers.

For those of you not in the know, Google Wave is best thought of as a multimedia rich fusion of E-mail, chat and a wiki, all supposedly in realtime, although the current lag on the servers mean that I haven't managed to get a feel for it, not to mention the lack of folk I know using the service.

This youtube video is probably the neatest way to show it to the unfamiliar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itc4253kjhw

What do others think? To me it seems like something that will be incredibly useful when multiple people are planning events etc. but at the moment it is hampered by slow performance and a lack of users. However I'm confident that both these problems will be addressed.

(And no, I don't have any invites.)
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Old 07 October 2009, 10:50 PM
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Darn, I got interested, too bad you don't have any invites. If anyone sees this and *does* have an invite, my email is MidgardDragon@gmail.com, much appreciated if you do provide one.
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Old 07 October 2009, 11:17 PM
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I saw you mention it on Twitter earlier. I'd love an invite too if anyone has one. I love new toys!
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Old 08 October 2009, 04:14 AM
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I can haz invite.
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Old 08 October 2009, 04:33 AM
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I was about to go on my anti-Google rant. But this thing is awesome!! I mean like they thought of everything. god damn!! It's missing voice though

I just wish Google would build one collabration tool and stick with it. Is this going to comete with Google chat or replace it?
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Old 23 October 2009, 04:09 PM
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If anyone has any invites left, I would appreciate getting an invite
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Also still waiting for an invite, but in case anyone want to know how it works... (NSFW language, but funny)

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